Plainfield Eviction Risk: Lower
Tract 17197880321 · Will County, IL · pop 5,041 · 82% of tract blocks fall in Plainfield
With a score of 3/10, tract 17197880321 in Plainfield, IL reads lower for landlord eviction risk. It is home to 5,041 residents. 22% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, well below the Will County average of 40.4%.
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Risk heat across Plainfield and the region
Centroid at 41.6588, -88.2183 · click any tract to drill in
Why Plainfield scores 3
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyHow Plainfield compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.SVI percentile: 19
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 7%Socioeconomic
- 29%Household composition
- 53%Racial/ethnic minority
- 40%Housing & transportation
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Eviction-adjacent indicators
Crude prevalence of conditions linked to housing loss. Source: CDC PLACES (cwsq-ngmh), 2023 model-based small-area estimates.
- 8.4%Housing insecurity
- 5.0%Utility-shutoff threat
- 8.9%Food insecurity
- 6.9%SNAP enrollment
- 5.1%Transit barriers
- 6.0%No health insurance
- 14.1%Frequent mental distress
- 20.4%Any disability
What drives eviction risk in Plainfield
The score leans hardest on supply constraint at 10/10. The voucher gap is 58.6%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Well under the midpoint, economic stress reads 1/10.
At $2,792 a month, rents run 32% over what the rest of Plainfield commands. It sits 1.2 points below the Will County average of 4.2. Food insecurity runs 8.9% against 17.8% nationally.
SNAP participation runs 6.9% against 15.2% nationally. Running cool, tenant-organizing strength reads 3.1/10. Nationally it ranks #67,219 of 84,120 for landlord eviction difficulty.
Only 4% of units are renter-occupied. Rental comparables are thin; price a renewal off the nearest genuine rental sub-market rather than off surrounding sale prices. On the CDC Social Vulnerability Index the tract reads 2.7/10, which tracks how hard a shock lands on the households already here.
Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 2.1 points cooler. Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured. Poverty sits at 0%, low enough that arrears here usually signal a specific shock rather than a structural income gap.
Annual rent works out to 24% of average household income of $139,432.
These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.
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Top eight tracts in Plainfield ranked by composite eviction-risk score.